Greek Texts & Translations

By Troja he means the continent which he had ravaged. Among other places which had been plundered, was the country opposite Lesbos,—that about Thebe, Lyrnessus, and Pedasus belonging to the Leleges, and the territory also of Eurypylus, the son of Telephus; as when he slew with his sword the hero Eurypylus, the son of Telephus; ^note and Neoptolemus, the hero Eurypylus.
The poet says these places were laid waste, and even Lesbos; when he took the well-built Lesbos, ^note
Il. ix. 129. and, he sacked Lyrnessus and Pedasus, ^note
Il. xx. 92. and, laid waste Lyrnessus, and the walls of Thebe. ^note
Il. ii. 691. Briseïs was taken captive at Lyrnessus; whom he carried away from Lyrnessus. ^note
Il. ii. 690. In the capture of this place the poet says, Mynes and Epistrophus were slain, as Briseïs mentions in her lament over Patroclus, Thou didst not permit me, when the swift-footed Achilles slew my husband, and destroyed the city of the divine Mynes, to make any lamentation; ^note for by calling Lyrnessus the city of the divine Mynes, the poet implies that it was governed by him who was killed fighting in its defence.

Chryseïs was carried away from Thebe; we came to Thebe, the sacred city of Eetion, ^note
Il. i. 366. and Chryseïs is mentioned among the booty which was carried off from that place. Andromache, daughter of the magnanimous Eetion, Eetion king of the Cilicians, who dwelt under the woody Placus at Thebe Hypoplacia. ^note

This is the second Trojan dynasty after that of Mynes, and in agreement with what has been observed are these words of Andromache;